Give Me A Few Words

One-Woman-Show

“a few words
for a woman to sing (…)
to build a house (…)
before night comes.” 

Markus Kutter, text for Sequenza III

A duel between a singer and her voice. An opera singer invites us into her workplace. She sings, that is to say, she surrenders her entire body to an exercise in breath that should enable her to reach the pinnacle of accuracy and expressivity, reminiscent of the first human cry, of a mother cradling her child, of the original insurgent or tragedienne dying on an opera stage. Within herself, she finds a voice that offers a thousand possibilities of going beyond what words will or can say… if she can tame it. But to do so, she must confront the other voices inside her, those of society – a journey that might take her to madness and beyond.

Teaser:

Read the notes by Aleksi Barrière (FR): 

GIVE ME A FEW WORDS avec Marianne Seleskovitch